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Course Level
Introduction
Delivery Method
Live Instructor-Led Virtual Course
Professional Development Credit Hours
14
Pre-requisites
There is no pre-requisite for this course.


Faculty

GABRIEL THOUMI CFA, FRM, Founder, Responsible Alpha, is a thematic investment research manager with over 12 years’ experience as an award-winning ESG analyst (2014, 2015, 2020 & 2021), fellowship recipient (2001, 2002, 2005 & 2007), member of various NGO boards and scientific and financial technical committees, and advisor applying his scientific and investment technical skills to investors, lenders, exchanges, rating agencies, and companies across many sectors of the real-economy to support sustainable and equitable investment strategies. He has published over 70 thematic research reports employing ESG integration skills, peer reviewed papers, and hundreds of news articles on capital markets and ESG integration. He is an adjunct lecturer at Johns Hopkins University where he teaches Financing a Sustainable World. He has also taught at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and at other universities. He holds the Certified Ecologist and LEED AP designations from the Ecological Society of America and the US Green Building Council respectively. Finally, he spent almost a decade in public service as a volunteer regional environment and energy commissioner supporting a sustainable and just transition economy for the Washington, DC Metro region. He has an MBA and MSc in Sustainable Systems from the University of Michigan.


Accreditations

NASBA: Mennta Energy Solutions is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its web site: www.nasbaregistry.org


CPD Certification Services: The CPD Certification Service works with Mennta Energy Solutions to ensure valuable knowledge is structured to complement the universal guidelines of Continuing Professional Development. Mennta Energy Solutions courses are approved by CPD at one credit per training hour.

Corporate Sustainability in a Complex World - CSWV


Course Schedule

Date Time Location Price* Registration Deadline**
20-23 Apr 2026
Register
10:00am-1:30pm (New York) / 3:00pm-6:30pm (London)
Zoom: Americas to Europe
USD 2,465 (CSWV-VILTNA26-04)
20 Mar 2026

*Prices do not include VAT, GST, or any other local taxes. All applicable taxes will be added to the invoice.
**Please register by the deadline to help us ensure sufficient attendance and avoid postponing the course.


Course Summary

Corporate sustainability, the optimization of environmental and social performance, is good business. It’s practice helps you understand impacts and dependencies on communities and the natural world, identify associated business risks and opportunities, and supports overall corporate strategy to improve operational integrity, asset value and profitability. However, in these politically charged times, it is difficult to get corporate sustainability right. Navigating stakeholder pressures from all sides of the political spectrum can be overwhelming. Knee-jerk reactions to these pressures wrestles attention away from your core business resulting in wasted resources, greenwashing, and missed opportunities.

This course will introduce you to the application of corporate sustainability in key business functions, including: investor relations; board, executive and stakeholder engagement; operations; systems design and planning; supply chain management; sales and marketing. We will present global frameworks that inform processes for setting priorities for action based on a business-savvy assessment of those material elements of sustainability most important to key dimensions of your operations, wherein these issues are approached as functional constraints rather than problems to be addressed with minimal commitment. Armed with these skills, you will be equipped to guide your company around the rocky shoals of outside pressure to achieve business success while bringing value to the people and places touched by your company.


Who Should Attend?

This course is designed for executives, managers and planners responsible for key aspects of business planning and operations who are beginning to confront sustainability questions and challenges. It will serve as a first step in gaining fluency in this area of growing importance, wherein the path forward requires clear understanding and deliberate yet prudent action.


Course Content

  • Introduction to sustainability issues facing energy corporations and utilities
  • Examples of how proactively addressing issues creates business opportunities
  • Identifying key business stakeholders, their needs and demands placed on your company, and cultivating stakeholder relationships as sources of business intelligence
  • Incorporating sustainability criteria as elements of process and product design and market development
  • Understanding sustainability throughout your value chain, from sourcing of raw materials, buildings and equipment, operations within your core and ancillary facilities and your strategic partners and customers.
  • Informed by this comprehensive application of sustainability throughout all dimensions of your business, learn how to apply a sustainability lens to strategic planning processes and systems.

 

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